In the Dark Room

Magdalena Kopp was married to the most wanted terrorist in the world – Carlos “the Jackal.” She followed him through the birth of international terrorism, of which he became the star. From the small conservative Bavarian town where she grew up, to the 68’ revolutionary zeitgeist of Berlin and the radical leftist cells of Frankfurt, […] >>

Shadows

For the first time on screen, second-generation children of Holocaust Survivors open up about their abused childhood suffering. Only now, decades later, they dare confront the memory of both physical and mental abuse. Their parents, who had survived the Holocaust, had inadvertently turned from abused Nazi victims into the abusers of their own children. The […] >>

Bear Hug

On a Spring’s day, a boy finds a bear tied to a tree in the forest – and sets it free. Through the changing of the seasons, the film follows the developing relationship between the civilized child and the untamed beast, and their naïve desire to coexist. >>

The Dark Side

Like many of those who survived the horrors of the Holocaust, Moshe Knebel has difficulty talking about his past with his children. They each have collected bits and pieces over the years, but none have the complete picture. Unlike other survivors, Moshe Knebel’s story is not just a story of survival, it is a story […] >>

Wadi Grand Canyon

On the eastern skirts of Haifa sits Wadi Rushmia, a region of abandoned quarries from the days of the British Mandate. Throughout the generations this place has been home to a variety of immigrant populations, first to Jewish immigrants from North Africa and Eastern Europe and later from Ethiopia and Russia. Eventually, displaced Palestinian Arabs […] >>

Fresh Meat

In a deserted military company, far from any jurisdiction, the midget digit is all that matters! Shechter, a newbie soldier tries every way to earn his long waited seniority. But when Levi, his company “buddy”, gets the title before he does, Shechter enters a demonic race of washing dishes to prove his justify eligibility. In […] >>

Cherries

From `Short:Long` – a tribute to Israeli cinema. A Tribute to Lemon popsicle – 1978.  The Sabbath is a few hours away. Victor, a confirmed ultra-Orthodox Jew, is stuck in cosmopolitan Tel Aviv after missing the last bus home. Seeking to find his way out, he encounters a different everyday reality that evokes long forgotten […] >>

Spotting Yossi

Thirteen years after his death, the great actor Yossi Banai comes to life for one final encore, with a cinematic memoir led by his own deep iconic voice. Pieced together from numerous archival sources – films, plays, radio, songs, and comedy shows – Banai directs the spotlight on to his own image. >>

Yakantalisa

In May 1994, one of the most significant voices in the Israeli cultural scene was silenced abruptly. Hezi Laskaly, a poet, artist, choreographer, and critic, died of AIDS at the age of 42. In February 1996 a film crew set off on the trail of the words he left behind. “Yakantalisa” is a cinematic portrait […] >>

Dust and Delights

A boy arrives to an empty field, with nothing around him. In the distance he sees a Large Dark Cosmic Orb, It is the grand storyteller that tells a tale about love. >>

A Night With No Dawn

Five Darfurian refugees must attend Holot detention center. When they arrive they discover that they are late and that they will have to spend the night outside. When the darkness surrounds them, the desert becomes a mirror of their souls, accompanying them on a spiritual journey in search for answers.   >>

Timor’s Show

Timor (37),  an Academy of Music dropout, now washes dishes in the Jerusalem Central Bus Station. After 10 years without performing, Timor decides to put on a solo show. His opera critic mother doesn’t believe in him. Timor’s voice teacher Ella takes things into her own hands. Will Timor perform? >>

A Place of Her Own

For four years, the director documented Reut, a girl who was in an out of shelters, and ended up on the street. At the age of 17 Reut had her first son, who was taken away from her by social services. During filming, while fighting the State for custody of her son, she meets a […] >>

The Devil Next Door

THE DEVIL NEXT DOOR is the true story of John Demjanjuk, a retired Ukrainian-American autoworker living a peaceful life with his family in Cleveland, Ohio suburbs in the 1980s. When a group of Holocaust survivors identify Demjanjuk’s photograph as “Ivan the Terrible” – a notoriously cruel Nazi death camp guard who tortured and killed nearly […] >>

Stefan Braun

More than 16 years have passed since furrier Stefan Braun passed away, but for Eliezer Rath, his lover and life-partner for 39 years, Stefan’s heart is still beating. Day in and day out he sits in Stefan’s room which hasn’t been touched since Stefan passed away, recording himself talking to him. Eliezer has recorded hundreds […] >>